For Review: ACT Rules Format 1.1 First Public Working Draft

Dear WAI Interest Group,

W3C WAI invites you to comment on the First Public Working Draft of:
     Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1
https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format-1.1/

Overview:

ACT Rules Format defines a format for writing accessibility test rules. It helps developers of automated testing tools and manual testing methodologies to write, share, and implement test rules. The test rules contribute to consistent testing for accessibility standards compliance.

For an introduction to ACT resources, see the ACT Overview <https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/>.

Updates:

ACT rules Format 1.1 now defines two types of accessibility requirements: “conformance requirements” and “secondary requirements”. It also allows subjective applicability statements in some circumstances.

Additional changes are in the Change History <https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/WD-act-rules-format-1.1-20240618/#Change_History>.

In-progress updates to the document are available in the Editors' Draft at:
https://w3c.github.io/wcag-act/act-rules-format.html

For review:

We would like your comments on:

  * New secondary accessibility requirements
  * Allowing subjective applicability statements
  * Rearrangement of some sections of the Test Rules

Comments:

To comment, please open a new issue in the ACT GitHub repository:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/new

Please create separate GitHub issues for each topic, rather than commenting on multiple topics in a single issue.

If it's not feasible for you to use GitHub, send comments in e-mail to: <public-wcag-act@w3.org> Please:

  * Put your comments in the body of the message, not as an attachment
  * Send a separate e-mail for each topic
  * Start your e-mail subject line with: [Rules Format 1.1]

Please send comments by *18 August 2024*.

Regards,
Shawn Lawton Henry for:
Katherine Eng and Wilco Fiers, ACT Task Force Facilitators
Daniel Montalvo, W3C Staff Contact for ACT Task Force


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Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program Lead
W3C Accessibility Education and Communications Lead
www.w3.org/People/Shawn